Freedom denied first win

With both teams looking for their first win of the season, Freedom and McGuffey traded scores early in their game. In the first 12:16, each team scored two touchdowns.

Patrick Frey of McGuffey scored just 5:14 into the game and Freedom answered 1:35 later when Trevor Mesing caught a 49-yard pass from Jared Hogue.

Frey scored again 1:41 later and Freedom answered 3:49 later when Lucas Yeck caught a 9-yard pass from Hogue.

At that point, though, McGuffey’s two pronged running attack of Frey and James Duchi took charge of the game and ground the scoring pace almost to a halt. Frey finished with 178 yards and two touchdowns.

Duchi rushed for 151 yards and scored twice himself – both in the second half. Duchi scored his first touchdown with just 19 seconds left in the third to extend the lead to more than one score. He added another in the fourth to settle the issue.

Freedom was led by senior quarterback Jared Hogue with 143 yards passing and 33 rushing.